Emoji bingo is picture bingo anyone can follow: 120 squares, from 😀 grinning face to 🧦 socks, each an emoji with its Unicode name. The caller has a word to read out, and a mixed-language group has a picture to find.
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Emoji bingo on a video call
Paste this page's address in the chat. It opens the same four cards on every phone. Give each player a card number; the pager reads Card 3 of 4. With more players, each presses New set of 4 cards. The host shares a screen on Call the game, which shows each call large, picture and name.
Smaller cards and themed rounds
On a phone, switch Grid to 3 × 3 or 4 × 4 so each picture is easier to spot. For a themed round, every player picks Animals or Food and drink in Ready-made list. One list of 24 fills a 5 × 5 card exactly, so every card shows the same pictures in a different order.
Call the picture as well as the name: lightning bolt for high voltage, car for automobile. The full list below glosses the stiffest names.
With a mixed-language group, show the caller screen and say nothing. Players find the picture, then name it in their own language.
Questions and answers
Why does the caller say hot beverage and not coffee?
Every square carries the English short name Unicode publishes for that emoji, and some are stiffer than speech: ☕ is hot beverage, 🚗 is automobile, ⚡ is high voltage and ⛄ is snowman without snow.
Why do the emoji look different on another phone?
Unicode sets the character and its name, not the artwork. Each phone and computer maker draws its own set, and this page embeds no images, so one square can look different on two screens. The name in the square settles it.
Which bingo emojis were left out?
Flags, people, hands, skin tones, hearts, alcohol, weapons and any food with a second meaning in messages. All 120 on the list are single characters from Emoji 12.0 (2019) or earlier, so older devices can draw them.
How long does a game take?
In 2,000 games we simulated with ten players, the first line came after about 41 calls on 5 × 5 cards and about 16 on 3 × 3 cards. Twenty players on 5 × 5 cards brought it down to 34.
Can I make cards from my own emoji, or numbered cards?
Yes. Press Empty the list and paste your own, one emoji per line, with or without a name. For numbers, the bingo card generator deals cards of 1 to 75.
All 120 squares
Faces 24
👽 alien
🤡 clown face
🥶 cold face
🤠 cowboy hat face
🤯 exploding head
😱 face screaming in fear
🧐 face with monocle
😂 face with tears of joyLaughing until it cries.
👻 ghost
😀 grinning face
😭 loudly crying face
🤓 nerd face
🥳 partying face
🤖 robot
🤫 shushing face
😴 sleeping face
😇 smiling face with halo
🤧 sneezing face
🤩 star-struckStars for eyes.
🤔 thinking face
🙃 upside-down face
😉 winking face
🥱 yawning face
🤐 zipper-mouth face
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Animals 24
🦋 butterfly
🐱 cat face
🐮 cow face
🦀 crab
🐶 dog face
🐬 dolphin
🐘 elephant
🦊 fox
🐸 frog
🦒 giraffe
🐝 honeybeeA bee.
🐴 horse face
🐨 koala
🦁 lion
🐙 octopus
🦉 owl
🐼 panda
🐧 penguin
🐷 pig face
🐰 rabbit face
🐌 snail
🐢 turtle
🦄 unicorn
🦓 zebra
Food and drink 24
🥑 avocado
🎂 birthday cake
🥦 broccoli
🥕 carrot
🧀 cheese wedge
🍪 cookie
🥐 croissant
🍩 doughnut
🌽 ear of cornCorn on the cob.
🍟 french fries
🍇 grapes
🍔 hamburger
☕ hot beverageCallers may say coffee or tea; hot beverage is the Unicode name.
🍋 lemon
🍍 pineapple
🍕 pizza
🍿 popcorn
🥨 pretzel
🍎 red apple
🍦 soft ice cream
🍝 spaghetti
🍓 strawberry
🌮 taco
🍉 watermelon
Sky, weather and plants 24
🌵 cactus
🌸 cherry blossom
🌙 crescent moon
💧 dropletA drop of water.
🌲 evergreen tree
🔥 fire
🍀 four leaf clover
🌎 globe showing Americas
⚡ high voltageThe lightning bolt. High voltage is the Unicode name.
🍁 maple leaf
🌴 palm tree
🌈 rainbow
🪐 ringed planet
🌹 rose
🌠 shooting star
⛄ snowman without snowUnicode has two snowmen. The other is named plain snowman and is drawn with snow falling around it.
⭐ star
⛅ sun behind cloud
🌞 sun with face
🌻 sunflower
🌷 tulip
☔ umbrella with rain drops
🌋 volcano
🌊 water wave
Travel and everyday things 24
⏰ alarm clock
⚓ anchor
🚗 automobileA car. Automobile is the Unicode name.
🎈 balloon
🚲 bicycle
📚 books
🚌 bus
📷 camera
👑 crown
🚒 fire engine
🎸 guitar
🚁 helicopter
🏠 house
🔑 key
💡 light bulb
🚂 locomotiveA steam engine.
🚀 rocket
⛵ sailboat
⚽ soccer ball
🧦 socks
⛺ tent
🚜 tractor
🚦 vertical traffic light
🎁 wrapped giftA present.
How this list was compiled: Chosen for this site on 2026-09-19. Every square is one emoji followed by its English CLDR short name, exactly as Unicode publishes it; the names were read from https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-test.txt (Emoji Keyboard/Display Test Data for UTS #51, Version 18.0, file dated 2026-04-30), fetched on 2026-09-19, and the same names appear in the Unicode chart Emoji List, v18.0, https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html , opened the same day. Each of the 120 emoji is a single code point that the file marks fully-qualified, so none needs a variation selector, a joiner or a skin-tone modifier, and each dates from Emoji 12.0 (2019) or earlier, so that phones and computers several years old can draw it. No image is embedded: the glyph is drawn by the visitor's own device font, which is why the same square looks different from one phone to the next (Unicode's emoji FAQ, https://www.unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html , read 2026-09-19: the Consortium neither designs emoji images nor supplies them and has no control over how emoji appear on vendors' platforms). Left out on purpose: flags, people, hands and gestures, skin tones, hearts, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, pills and syringes, the slot machine, religious buildings, faces that are hard to tell apart at card size, and food emoji that carry a second meaning in messages. One animal per species: where Unicode has a face and a whole animal, only one is used. The short lines beside some squares are our glosses for a caller (a car, a bee), not Unicode text. The usual ways to win at bingo were checked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo_%28American_version%29 on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work